Barwoel
Comic magazine
Barwoel was a Dutch small press comic magazine, published from 1989 to 1995 in Rotterdam by Tonio van Vugt and his art academy friends. In 1995, this comic magazine evolved into the magazine Zone 5300.
Development
The experimental comic zine Barwoel was created in 1989 by Tonio van Vugt and several fellow students from their time at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam. In 1987, Van Vugt, Herman Jan Couwenberg, Henk de Bont, Finn Stapelkamp, and Rik van Schagen had first collaborated on a special "Was getekend" issue for the newspaper Het Vrije Volk.
Barwoel was one of the notable new-generation amateur comic magazines in the Netherlands in the early 1990s, alongside other groundbreaking comic zines such as Iris from Nijmegen, Posse from Amsterdam, and Incognito from Zaandam.
The issue was copied in black and white, and was limited to a print run of 50 to 200 copies. The first issue had a circulation of 70 copies, which gradually grew. One of the regular comics, Rik van Schagen's Stripstrip, appeared daily in the newspaper Het Vrije Volk starting from July 1989.
Founders, artists, and writers
The founders of the magazine were Finn Stapelkamp, Herman Jan Couwenberg (Djanko), and Rik van Schagen. Other early cartoonists and writers were Marianne Eijgendaal, Marco Faasen, Matthias Giesen, Gerrie Hondius, Joost Pollmann, Roel Seidell, Kees Torn, and Zookie.
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